Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of David Lee Child

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858648 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Wayland Selected signatures:David Lee ChildJames DraperLydia Maria Child Total signatures: 297 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 116 Female signatures: 146 Other male signatures: 24 Unidentified signatures: 11 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, non-voters, [females], [other males] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Some signatures have the note "copied from the original paper"; notes next to signatures qualifying the text and odd placement of "mrs"; two sections of non-voters on the right; appears to have "rev." (for reverend?) next to a "mrs" Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.